Jane Clark

I am a former college teacher of composition, literature, and journalism, who worked for a major northeastern university and a small, private liberal arts college. I served as advisor to the campus literary magazine and the streaming radio station, where I trained students to write, produce, and deliver local news stories and host talk shows. I was a site director for the National Writing Project in Berkeley, CA, located at PSU, Harrisburg, where I oversaw professional development programs for classroom teachers in the area of writing pedagogy, including writing across the curriculum, writing as a second language, and creative writing.

Before entering academia, I spent years chasing legislative stories as a journalist for the Associated Press and served as news director for Radio Pennsylvania. My graduate studies include a Ph.D. in English with a specialty in Narrative Theory and Research. I have devoted much of my post-graduate research to investigating the systems and conditions that cause women to lose voice and the impact this has on their sense of agency.

Currently, I devote my time to facilitating writing workshops, working as a spiritual companion, helping women to unsilence themselves, and writing my own books. I have written a memoir, Story Carrier: A Collection of Tales of the Disappeared, and Storying Silence: A Writing Workbook to Restore Your Voice & Reclaim Your Sovereignty.

In my free time, I enjoy traveling and gardening with my husband in our home near the Appalachian Forest in Pennsylvania.